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The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783
In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall deals with a crucial period in the history of the British Empire in trying to explain how the British at the same time lost an empire in North America, while winning one in parts of India. He shows that British objectives were much the same all over the world and examines the conditions in America that frustrated these objectives and those in India that facilitated them.
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The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783
In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall deals with a crucial period in the history of the British Empire in trying to explain how the British at the same time lost an empire in North America, while winning one in parts of India. He shows that British objectives were much the same all over the world and examines the conditions in America that frustrated these objectives and those in India that facilitated them.
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The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783

The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783

by P. J. Marshall
The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783

The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783

by P. J. Marshall

Overview

In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall deals with a crucial period in the history of the British Empire in trying to explain how the British at the same time lost an empire in North America, while winning one in parts of India. He shows that British objectives were much the same all over the world and examines the conditions in America that frustrated these objectives and those in India that facilitated them.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199278954
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 06/30/2005
Pages: 410
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 6.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

P. J. Marshall completed a D.Phil at Oxford in 1962. He was a lecturer in history at King's College, London, and became Rhodes Professor of Imperial History in 1981. From 1997 to 2001 he was President of the Royal Historical Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. British World-Wide Expansion2. State and Empire3. War and its Transformations: The Atlantic 1754-17634. War and its Transformations: India 1754-17655. Ideas of Empire 1763-1776: The 'Old' Empire6. Ideas of Empire 1763-1776: The 'New' Empire7. The Making of Empire, I: India, New Imperial Structures8. The Making of Empire, II: India, Madras, Bombay, and Bengal9. The Unmaking of Empire, I: North America 1763-176810. The Unmaking of Empire, II: North America 1768-177511. War and its Resolutions 1775-1783BibliographyIndex
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